"Nearly three centuries."

"So one may hope the remnants are all gone now."

"Most likely, yes."

"What else've we got?"

Lucette can skim through the book and summarize each demon.

A demon made of needles that extracted images from victims' minds and fashioned them into lesser monsters, which it released to fight against the empowered.

A demon which resulted in 32 empowered 'retiring' and the extermination of an unnamed town. No further details are recorded about that campaign, and there's a royal order to execute anyone found with any written records of what occurred.

And lastly, to round out the first volume, a demon with three humanoid bodies, one of stone, one of fire, and one of quick silver. They appeared separate and were initially assumed to be three different wild demons until it was discovered that each could transfer wounds to another (stone to fire, fire to quicksilver, and quicksilver to stone). 

Haru has comments on all of these as they are read out to him whether they need the comments or not. He gets, very gradually, quieter, as they sit up holding hands.

Lucette appreciates his comments, even the unnecessary ones.

Eventually: "I think I'm at a low enough backlash level that I could go to bed by myself without it being awful. It might make sense to sleep now and finish this up over breakfast."

"As you wish." Lucette summons her head maid, Rachel, by touching a glass and setting it to ring loudly enough to be heard outside her study. Rachel will then arrange for Haru to make his way to the guest house unobserved, and then help Lucette change into new clothing so Lucette can leave the study with none the wiser.

He sleeps. He has bad dreams and feels cold alone in bed but that can happen to even completely nonmagical people once in a while.

The next day he is invited to Miss Brynd's manor to try her cook's best attempt at a traditional Narnian stirfry.

He gets to have breakfast with Lucette first, right? Without any servants in the room so he can hold her hand a little more.

Of course.

Oh thank goodness.

Yes, the stirfry, he's happy to help.

It tastes like this!

"I don't like it but maybe that's just because Narnian food isn't very good?"

"I think the heat was too low and, and since we're without the soy sauce I'd want to have more sesame in here, but I think another run at it will have it passable. It's possible you just don't care for Narnian food even when it's done more closely to form, of course."

The cook can prepare another batch while he's here if he wouldn't mind waiting.

"Do Narnians vary what they eat depending on the time of year?"

"Some fruits are best at certain times of year even in Narnia, but I think less than the people here do in general."

"What about hot foods in the winter? We have clotted cream and honey heated up - it's delicious."

"I must again mention chocolate, it makes a lovely beverage with milk and sugar and warmed up till it's steaming."

"Oh, that sounds good! Warm sweet drinks when it's cold are delightful."

"Hot cider's nice too. - I wouldn't add the mushrooms quite yet," he adds to the cook.

"Oh, we have cider! Do you ever go outside when it's been snowing just so you can enjoy a hot drink more? I do sometimes, and my mother always scolds me. But she's not going to be allowed to when I'm married, so maybe I'll get to do it without being scolded this winter."

The cook puts the mushrooms aside.